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Most of California's fast food workers are set to be paid at least $20 per hour.

'Join BJP or else': What Arvind Kejriwal confidante Atishi claims before media ‘How Prime Ministers Decide’ delves into the strategies Indira Gandhi crafted to regain power in 1980 after a significant defeat post the Emergency period; Rajiv Gandhi's decision to undo the Supreme Court’s judgment in the Shah Bano case; how VP Singh saved his government by implementing the Mandal Commission Report; the Babri Masjid demolition during PV Narasimha Rao’s tenure; and more. As per the rules, Arvind Kejriwal has given a list of six people whom he would like to meet.

Online food delivery platform Zomato said it has received a service tax demand and penalty order aggregating over Rs 184 crore, and will file an appeal against it before an appropriate authority. The demand order has been received for non-payment of service tax for the period October 2014 to June 2017 determined on the basis of certain sales made by the foreign subsidiaries and branches of the company to its customers located outside India, the company said in a late night regulatory filing. The company also mentioned that in its response to the show cause notice it had clarified on the allegations along with supporting documents and judicial precedents, «which appears to not have been appreciated by the authorities while passing the order.»

Future Consumer Ltd.(up 6.25%), Dangee Dums Ltd.(up 5.62%), Bajaj Consumer Care Ltd.(up 5.61%), JHS Svendgaard Laboratories Ltd.(up 4.72%), Jyothy Labs Ltd.(up 2.37%), Colgate-Palmolive(India)Ltd.(up 2.31%), Vadilal Industries Ltd.(up 1.79%), Hindustan Foods Ltd.(up 1.79%), Sheetal Cool Products Ltd.(up 1.76%) and Emami Ltd.(up 1.64%) were among the top gainers.

chocolates. Bills at quick service and fine-dining restaurants may rise 5-8% starting this month as prices of cocoa, coffee, palm oil and sugar have surged over the past quarter. This will be the first such increase in about 1.5 years, said industry executives and restaurateurs. Prices of cocoa and coffee are at all-time highs and palm oil has risen 10% Y-o-Y. Executives at a dozen restaurant and cafe chains said they are evaluating price hikes this month itself. Aseem Grover, owner of the upscale The Big Chill Cafe and dessert chain The Big Chill Cakery, is monitoring costs carefully.

₹4.63 trillion. The latest step in this direction, taken in February 2024, has been an enhancement of the authorized working capital of FCI from ₹10,000 crore to ₹21,000 crore. Traditionally, these operations have been financed through food credit.

OTTAWA — The national price on pollution will rise by $15 per tonne today. Here’s some questions answered about what this could mean for you.

16 Handles CEO Neil Hershman discusses the impact of Gov. Gavin Newsons new minimum wage law on Varney & Co.

European and US equity futures rose Monday as US inflation figures did little to alter views that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates this year.

Patel Retail has filed its draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) with the market regulator Sebi to raise funds through an IPO. The public offer, with a face value of Rs 10 per share, is a mix of fresh equity issue of 90.18 lakh and an offer for sale of 10.02 lakh shares by promoters.

MOTYZHYN, Ukraine—Two years ago, Ukrainian soldiers who retook this village near Kyiv from Russian invaders found the bodies of the mayor, her husband and their son buried in a shallow grave with bullet holes in their chests and heads. These days the front line is hundreds of miles away, to the east and south, with the war in a violent deadlock. But the village is adapting for a long war.

Bollywood, cricket and food because they add fun to his job, not just the policy work but connecting with people. Politicians, according to him, come and go, but personal connections last a lifetime.

LARNACA, Cyprus—When President Biden declared in early March that the U.S. military would build a pier on the coast of Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid by sea, a Spanish-American celebrity chef was already two steps ahead of the world’s mightiest fighting force. José Andrés had commandeered a tugboat to bring 200 tons of food on a barge from Larnaca, a port city in Cyprus, to Gaza’s shores for use in kitchens run by his disaster-relief group, World Central Kitchen.

₹1,200, supported by a strong bullish candle, suggesting a continuation of the medium-term uptrend. The stock is exhibiting a medium-rising channel trend, finding support at the lower band and poised to advance towards the upper band. It has closed above the daily upper Bollinger band, signalling a buying opportunity in the short term also.

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has hinted that India’s economy will see gross domestic product (GDP) expand 8% or more in the three months ended 31 March. “Hopefully, the fourth quarter… will also have (growth of) 8% or above 8%, resulting in 2023-24 having an average growth in GDP of 8% or over 8%," she said at a Mint summit on Saturday. This sends an optimistic signal on our post-pandemic growth momentum.

RBI) is likely to keep interest rates unchanged this week as it weighs both robust domestic economic growth prospects amid prickly food inflation and a delayed start to the now-evident shallower monetary easing cycle in the US, where policymakers have already announced fewer reductions next year than indicated by earlier dot plots. An ET poll of 14 respondents said the central bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is expected to keep the repo rate unchanged at 6.50% at the conclusion of the panel's three-day meeting on April 5. This would mark the seventh consecutive time the rate-setting committee is expected to maintain the repo rate at its current level.

India is looking to increase the export of agricultural value added products by forging partnerships with retail chains and supermarkets of countries like the United Arab Emirates. The commerce department has identified 12 value added food items, including jams, jellies and marmalades, alcoholic beverages, fruit pulp products, dehydrated vegetables and ready to eat products for the purpose. «We plan to concentrate on a few products and push their exports. These are some value-added goods which we are sure would give results,» said an official, who did not wish to be identified. Biscuits, confectionery, mango pulp and value-added products of mangoes, and preserved gherkins and cucumbers are also part of the list. «There's no target set for the export of these 12 categories. We expect a push from the free trade agreements signed recently,» the official said, adding that the plan entails promotions, stakeholder consultations and state tie-ups with supermarkets and retail chains, especially in the UAE, the EU and the US.

₹2.86 trillion into public sector banks, as per data presented in the Parliament by junior finance minister Bhagwat Karad in March 2023. The cleanup of legacy bad loans and stronger underwriting decisions have played a role in the improvement of their health. Asked about the trends in private capex, the minister said the private sector is investing significantly in areas offering new opportunities.

soft-boiled egg, the ball is raised to the other end of the rod and released. It hits the mould with a force of 0.6867 Newtons, just enough to crack the eggshell so the top comes off cleanly and the contents can be dug out and eaten. Germans aren’t alone in their love for soft-boiled eggs; Singapore’s kopitiam (coffee-shop) style eggs are served with a dash of soy sauce and pepper. France has many recipes structured around oeufs mollets, most notably one which suspends them in savoury jelly. Scotch eggs envelop them with minced meat. Japanese ramen includes a soft-boiled egg whose creaminess subtly helps enrich the broth. Indians eat eggs scrambled with onions, tomatoes and coriander, or stir-fried with kheema. We hard boil and cook them in curries. We make them into omelettes, stuff them into rolls, or dunk them in gravy. We fry and serve them with cheese and chillies on toast in the newly-popular Eggs Kejriwal. We make bizarre variations (fried with Fanta!) that are condemned or celebrated on social media. What we don’t like is to just soft-boil them.

Zomato received a GST demand order worth ₹23.26 crore for FY 2018-19 from Karnataka tax authorities. Further INDIA bloc leaders assembled at Ramlila Maidan in solidarity with Kejriwal, Soren. CUET-UG also extended application deadline till April 5.

Robert Howarth is getting under the skin of the oil-and-gas industry. The gray-haired climate scientist says he doesn’t care. Howarth, a methane researcher at Cornell University, said in a recent study that exports of liquefied natural gas from the U.S.